Ecency launched Hive Keeper and a run of wallet explainers, Splinterlands ran back-to-back game beats, and the chain still showed HBD print rate at 0 while net stake moved negative (more powered down than up over seven days). The week was less about a single headline and more about steady shipping: frontends, infra, and governance all stayed in motion.
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Worth a dedicated beat: HiveWatchers posted a public warning about fake "Hive support" and arbitrage scams (email, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp). If something asks for your keys or "urgent" verification, it is not official — bookmark real support paths and double-check any handle.
Elsewhere, frontends kept pushing practical user flows, Denser (hive.blog) and related repos added fixture and E2E depth, and governance stayed in a familiar place: HBD still is not being minted (print rate 0) at current conditions, and funded DHF lines still lean toward builders maintaining real infrastructure. Project Spotlights rounds out the week with Ecency, Splinterlands, Magi, 3Speak, HiveWatchers, and the PeakD changelog thread.
Theme for the week — the most coherent thread is making money movement and day-one tasks easier to do without breaking things: clearer wallet education, better surfaces for creators, and an explicit scam warning from HiveWatchers so fewer people get separated from their keys. That combination — polish plus safety culture — is how social chains keep users through volatile weeks.
Core and ecosystem development this week leaned heavily toward stability and maintainability.
On GitLab, multiple Hive repos saw merges in-window, with Denser carrying a concentrated testing push (fixture coverage and stable/flaky E2E split), hivemind tightening concurrency behavior, and haf_api_node hardening operational paths around proxy handling and log drift. Supporting repos such as HAfAH, balance/reputation trackers, and hivesense also shipped updates, mostly in CI, dependency, and robustness categories.
On GitHub, visible merged PRs were lighter but still notable: Hive Keychain extension released v3.15.6, Mantequilla Soft's hivesnaps merged UX/compliance fixes, and SkateHive's monorepo continued app registration work. The pattern this week was less "new flagship feature" and more "ship the maintenance that keeps everything trustworthy."
Ecency — Ecency published a run of wallet and onboarding-focused updates, including the launch of Hive Keeper and practical wallet operation guides for users managing HIVE and HBD on mobile.
Introducing Hive Keeper | Wallet operations explainer
Splinterlands — Splinterlands delivered back-to-back game updates with the Vinnie & Mags airdrop and Electroneum-themed content, keeping cadence high on game-side engagement.
Vinnie & Mags Airdrop | Electroneum update
Magi Network — Magi published an embeddable cross-chain swap widget for HIVE, HBD, and BTC, a meaningful bridge point for apps that want conversion UX without forcing users into separate flows.
Magi SDK swap widget
3Speak — The weekly encoder network report stayed active, signaling ongoing throughput and operational continuity for video infrastructure on Hive.
Week 20 report
HiveWatchers — Reminder: fake "Hive support," arbitrage, and key-harvest scams keep circulating on email and chat apps. Read the team’s latest warning and verify any contact before you act.
Scam and fake-support alert
PeakD changelog thread — The latest Snaps thread from 
PeakD Snaps changelog thread
| Metric | This Week |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.062324 |
| HIVE market cap | $33.58M |
| HBD trading price | $0.951 |
| HBD trading market cap | $31.62M |
| CoinGecko rank | #627 |
| HIVE powered up (7d) | 279,884.863 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down (7d) | 484,071.604 HIVE |
| Net stake change (7d) | -204,186.741 HIVE |
| HBD print rate | 0 |
HBD explained: Hive Backed Dollars are Hive's native stablecoin, redeemable for $1 worth of HIVE at the protocol level. Right now, print_rate is zero, which means the chain is not minting new HBD under current debt conditions.
Powering up: Staking HIVE into Hive Power increases governance weight and curation exposure. This week showed net power-down, so more stake moved out of lockup than into it.
Witness versions remain largely stable at v1.28.3 in the top 21, with one visible laggard (deathwing at v1.28.0). Consensus stability remains intact, but version uniformity is still worth watching.
Funded DHF proposals (above Return Proposal #0 by votes) continue to cluster around core ecosystem maintenance and product delivery. The largest allocations in this window are VSC Network, CrimsonClad's retrospective proposal, Keychain, and PeakD, with Ecency and HiveWatchers also funded.
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